Arika have been creating events since 2001. The Archive is space to share the documentation of our work, over 600 events from the past 20 years. Browse the archive by event, artists and collections, explore using theme pairs, or use the index for a comprehensive overview.
Laser beam sine tones used to draw delicate, abstract patterns by vibrating charcoal, placed atop of a great strip of paper running through the gallery; beautiful, fragile sound-created autonomous drawing.
Do ideas emerging from particle physics help to re-think of blackness as a mode of life in which it’s possible to practice difference without separation?
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
A fulcrum to the Japanese noise scene, JOJO Hiroshige has been responsible for much of the explosion of free music coming from Japan in the last 30 years.
A series of reality dramas happening over the course of the weekend.
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
Everyday objects and materials (rubber bands, paper, a sink, microphones) disabused of their inertia and made to speak for themselves in a kind of focusing in on the tiny, repetitive, almost unobserved (sonic/ visual) potential of everyday things put into motion.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
